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Do you think there's a chance that the good 80'ies Model series were for the US market and the messy ones went to Europe?
I'm asking because i have often wondered why the 80'ies Charvel Model import series are considered a good bargain by the JCF members. They are considered good guitars by all of you it seems.
But here i am, in Europe, and i clearly remember what the Model 2 was like when i had it around 1987. It was bad! I had a red one, my other gtr player had a white one, another gtr player had a white one, my drummer had a red one - all Model 2's. And they were all in pretty bad shape from the beginning. They were ALL bought new. They all had bad (unfixable) intonation, bad JT-6 tremolos never returning to zero, high action or rattle, dull sounding acoustically, not one of them necks were straight, one was even twisted.
Now, i didn't know much about adjusting and tweaking guitars back then, but several of us went and got the guitars fixed by professionals, but they never came out as great playing guitars. They were simply shitty to play.
I personally got a Hagström Les Paul afterwards and an Ibanez Roadstar (Lukather) and jesus, what took me so long. My gtr friend got an ESP Mirage and never looked back.
I am really tempted to buy another Model 2, to prove to myself that i was an unexperienced boy, but the the idea came to me, that we europeans got the crappy models build by some 13 years old trainees at the japanese factory.
What do you europeans think of the Model series back then?
I'm asking because i have often wondered why the 80'ies Charvel Model import series are considered a good bargain by the JCF members. They are considered good guitars by all of you it seems.
But here i am, in Europe, and i clearly remember what the Model 2 was like when i had it around 1987. It was bad! I had a red one, my other gtr player had a white one, another gtr player had a white one, my drummer had a red one - all Model 2's. And they were all in pretty bad shape from the beginning. They were ALL bought new. They all had bad (unfixable) intonation, bad JT-6 tremolos never returning to zero, high action or rattle, dull sounding acoustically, not one of them necks were straight, one was even twisted.
Now, i didn't know much about adjusting and tweaking guitars back then, but several of us went and got the guitars fixed by professionals, but they never came out as great playing guitars. They were simply shitty to play.
I personally got a Hagström Les Paul afterwards and an Ibanez Roadstar (Lukather) and jesus, what took me so long. My gtr friend got an ESP Mirage and never looked back.
I am really tempted to buy another Model 2, to prove to myself that i was an unexperienced boy, but the the idea came to me, that we europeans got the crappy models build by some 13 years old trainees at the japanese factory.
What do you europeans think of the Model series back then?
....it'll all be good. I promise.
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